Neighborhood walk
The weather today is magnificent in SoCal, so we took a walk around the neighborhood, along the path behind the house up to a ridge, then back down a trail into the valley south of our street.
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Networked CableCard TV Solution
For those Cable TV subscribers looking to ditch their set-top boxes, CableCards provide a way for your equipment (Tivo, Moxi, etc.) to decode encrypted and High-Def TV channels without having to rent a set-top box. I was able to ditch the horrible Motorola DVR box my cable company was charging around $20 a month for…
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New TVs won’t end frustration!
The fancy new voice- and gesture-controlled TVs being introduced at CES this year are evidence that the TV makers don’t get (or even worse, can’t fix) the frustrations many people have with their TVs: The problem isn’t the TV! The problem is controlling the TV and the cable box and the A/V receiver (and the…
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Ocean Views category now on front page
I originally kept the Ocean Views category off the front page, because I had ambitions to put up a picture every day or two. Well, that hasn’t worked out, so I will let those posts show up on the front page. They will certainly not interfere with the web crawlers that grope their way through…
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Jan 8 – Rising morning clouds
The weather got a bit colder and foggier yesterday, but this morning, we had bright sunshine on top of the hill, while the fog settled in the valleys and on the ocean. Mid-morning, though, the fog rose in great billows, as these photos show. You can see Catalina Island in a couple of the pictures,…
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December 30 Clouds at Dawn
The cloud/fog layer was right atop the ocean at dawn.
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December 11 Sunset
We had a colorful and spectacular sunset. I’m including lots of images, because I think each has some slightly different appeal.
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Hiperwall Holiday Fun
An occasional moment of fun in the Calit2 Visualization Lab as the Hiperwall team checks out video games on the Hiperwall system: Dr. Sung-Jin Kim brought a Playstation 3 and his guitar to play Rocksmith. The video shows other games, including Battlefield 3 and Tetris. I can be seen briefly playing a co-op game with…
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In Memory of Sandy
Our dog died this week. Sandy had been with us for more than 13 years, but had been having health problems for the last 6 months. Late in life, she developed diabetes and started having epileptic seizures. We kept it under control for quite a while, but eventually it was too much for her system….
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Cloud Computing for Home Has Huge Problems
We’re getting lots of examples of Cloud Computing for use at home these days. Examples include Apple‘s new iCloud, the Siri digital assistant built into the iPhone 4S, Google Documents and GMail, and cloud backup, like Mozy, Carbonite, and the one I use, CrashPlan. All of these store your data in the cloud (on servers…
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